Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-31

UNITED STATES CONSUL JORDAN ard a
number of American residents of Liver
| pool went to the mouth of the Mersey in a
special steamer, on the Gath and heartily
greeted ex-Secretary Manning on his ar
| rival by the Arizona.
| PETER SMITH, who is to be banged
| in the Tombs prison-yard, New York
on May 5. for the murder of John
| Hannah, is accused of being guilty Of an
even worse crime, namely, the killing of
his father a year before he shot Hannah.
| AT Methodist Episcopal donation party
| held in a School-house at Hittville, near
Utica, n. Y, on the night of the sd, the
floor gave way and ten or fifteen persons
were severely injured, being bruised,
burned and scalded, and sustaining frac-
lures of the limbs. None Of the injured
persons have died thus far.
MEMORIAL exercises in honor of the Int
President Arthur will take place in the
Assembly chamber at Albany, n. Y, on
the evening of April 20. Ex-Attorney-
General Brewster, of Philadelphia, and
| Cnaancey III. Depew will deliver ad-
dresses.
1T is reported that combination of
wealthy men, including Senator Payne, of
Ohio; Erastus Wiman of New York, and
james McLaren, Of Ottawa, Ont, is being
formed to control all the valuable iron
! richest in the world.
Mr.. BLAINE Is making a tour of the
West
| CARTER HARRISON has reconsidered. and
positively refuses to run for mayor of
| Chicago.
| THE Jews of Tunis are still protesting
| against the determinations OF the new
| burial laws.
! AMOS JOHNSON, colored, was legally ex-
| acrta6 ar Mem nh
| EDIMIsToN & WADDELL, agricultural
implements, New York, have failed
| Liabilities, $500, 900, assets, nothing.
| A SISTER of the Princess of Wales has be-
come dangerously demented and has been
/ sent to an asylum.
| DIR. MCGLYNN is announced fora lecture
IN New York on the ''Cross of a New CRU
| sadea'
| MAURICE GRAU, the opera manager in
| Jail at Quebec, Can, makes an appeal,
stating the financial mIsfortunes which
precipitated his troubles.
| JAMES NJ TRoTTER, the new Recorder OF
| Deeds at Washington, d. c., is so ill that
| his life is despired of.
| ANOTHER railway accident occurred at
Leetonia, O., on the 25th, in which one per-
| son was killed and large number in
| jured.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri has
issued his proclamation calling the Leg
| islature together in extra session May II
next.
REPUBLICANS are claiming to have made
some sort of deal with Mr.. Randall on the
tariff question and have called off the
| fight on him in Pennsylvania.
EMILY SOLDENE, the operate artist, has
sued John McCaull for breach of con-
| tract, he having discharged her the
other day, after hiring her for the whole
season.
VINCENT DE BAUERNFEND, an Austrian,
who served under kossuth in the Hun
garian revolution and came to this coun.
try as an exile, died on the 18th at Rolla,
Mo.
c. NJ. THOMPSON has been arrested at
Muskegon, Mich, charged with bigamy.
He is accused of having four living wives
three of them in Ohio.
THE grand jury at Chicago returned if
teen or twenty indictments against county
''boodlers" on the 25th, but names of the
indicted were not made public.
THE Central High school at West Rich
field, O., was burned on the 25th. Loss
about S12, 900. The fire, it is said, origi-
mated from defective heating apparatus
JACOB KAHN, of New York died at the
Fitch Hospital Buffalo, N. Y, at noon on
the 25th, making fourteen victims of the
Richmond Hotel fire.
The two Italians, Geraci and Deluca,
who were arrested in Philadelphia on the
charge of defrauding Washington jewel.
ers out of goods valued at 81, 800, were
on the 18th held in $500 bail for appear
ance.
4 sTATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Office shows that there are now pending
before that office awaiting examination
2S7, 1877 applications for pensions Claims
are presented at the rate of about 6, 600
week, and an average of $500 week are
finally adjudicated.
A MANSFIELD co. syndicate, Of which
Senator Sherman is at the head, about SIX
weeks ago paid $4,000 for 100 acres of
land one mile north of Findlay, the centre
of the Ohio gas fields. On the 25th Sher-
mans agent at Mansfield was offered
$50, 600 for the land but declined.
JOHN Kapples, who arrived in Chicago
from Boston on the oath, was found dead
in his bed on the morning of the 25th, hav-
ing been suffocated by escaping gas. He
blew out the gas on retiring. He was on
his way to Wisconsin, in company with
his married daughter.